Anybody Else Notice An Upturn In Crankiness (Besides Here At DU) !!!

[WillyT]

Between the heat, and the Middle East, Ive been sensing that people's fuses are getting really short.

Anyone else seeing evidence of this?

:shrug:

[EFerrari]

1. Go Cheney yourself.

[WillyT]

14. Oh.. Sure... You're Over There In S.F. Where It's A Scorching 75 Degrees !

Come on over to the valley that is my oven!

:beer::hi::beer:

[EFerrari]

31. Hey -- I wouldn't last long enough to melt there!

Anyway, my Latina DNA is okay with the heat. Pets, plants, husband and neighbors, they're no so happy. :)

[lonestarnot]

24. rofl

:rofl:

[TomClash]

2. Definitely in NYC

on Tuesday when it was almost 100 degrees.

[EFerrari]

4. It was hot here at 7am and we're in a beachfront fog belt. n/t

[movonne]

5. Where do you live???

[EFerrari]

6. San Francisco, on the beach. My roses are SCORCHED.

:shrug:

[im10ashus]

30. Spoke with my friend Jon in San Fran last night.

He said the same thing. But hey, there's no global warming, right? And they'd hold a press conference to say as much, if it weren't so damned hot out.

:hi:

[EFerrari]

33. There are no SORCHED ROSES on Ocean Beach!

Mildew, RUST, aphids. But SCORCHED? All the years I visited this hood as a rug rat in the summer, we went to Larson pool to swim. We put on swimming suits and PRETENDED it was hot. The beach was a fog-shrouded block away, too.

lol









:hi:

[im10ashus]

43. WOW!

It's like a midwest summer out there. And your poor doggy!

:-(

[proud patriot]

35. Time to go to the river

:hi:

[EFerrari]

37. Wish I were up in Yosem, at that pond with the big rock

we called "Mirror Lake Annex".

The kids used to jump off it all day. We stayed WET, we ate WET, it was awesome. :)

[TomClash]

19. IN SF??

Amazing.

[EFerrari]

34. Ocular proof iin #33.

It's amazing to all of us but Al Gore.

[JDPriestly]

3. Yes

[AlCzervik]

7. our forecast says 112 today, so yeah i'm pre cranky right now

later on i'll be in full on whiny bitch mode.

[tammywammy]

8. Every summer I see the crankiness go up

This week has been unbearable (100+ all week, until today a nice cool front and it's only getting up to 93).

I'm a receptionist and the people calling in just get ruder and ruder. Some of it is always there, the idea that you should just take everything out on whomever answers the phone.

The lady that works 8-5 got the brunt of it this week, every day when I came in, she'd say "it's just been horrible today."

So, this is just a friendly reminder, never yell at the person that answers the phone. All I do is answer and transfer it, I can't actually fix your car, sell you a car, demand that someone already with a customer answer your call, etc. (I work at a car dealership) :)

[jarnocan]

9. there is SO MUCH going on;

and the latest war- well we are all concerned and upset, but also have some mixed feelings.
The incredible heat wave, and storms- massive blackout in NY BTW seems like mother nature herself decided to promote Al Gore's movie. We are living in very scary times.
I still want to see impeachment happen and to have verifiable elctions in this country but those issues seem to be taking a back seat compared to so much else going on, and yet IMHO, things will only get worse- and they are so quickly.

I think many of US are just overwhelmed.

[TheCowsCameHome]

10. No. Wanna make something of it? C'mon, tough guy.....

Seriously, I do see this happening more and more.

Between the summer heat and all the bad news day after day it wears just people down.

[WillyT]

16. LOL !!! n\t

[Bluerthanblue]

11. yes, even the weather, the animals, the insects-

everyone and everything seems to have a 'hair trigger' and be extreem- to the extreem.
Loud voices, over-the-top responses- its like the entire planet woke up on the wrong side of the universe.

the total opposite of "harmonic conversion"

I don't know if nature is responding to man- or vice a versa, but my first instinct says, we are reaping a bitter harvest.

after those 'bright thoughts'
I'll wish you-
peace,

blu

[earthside]

12. Uncomfortable Double Standards

Well, the war in Israel-Lebanon exposes some uncomfortable double standards for some liberals and progressives. They've been very much against the war and occupation of Iraq, but religious loyalties have caused them to be for the aggression in Lebanon. That kind of inconsistency, and trying to defend it, would make me cranky, too.

Besides ... it's hot.

[skids]

13. I am not CRANKY GODDAMMIT! n/t

[WillyT]

15. LOL !!! n\t

[calico1]

17. Bite me!!!

:rofl:

Seriously though I agree with you. For me, this stinking weather is getting on my last nerve. I just told my fiance to go take a nap or something. He was getting on my nerves too! :crazy:

[NV Whino]

18. Yes, damnit!

I'm tired of being angry all the time.

[Peace Patriot]

20. It's the spirits of those who have been slaughtered by bombs or tortured

to death in our name, that are forming a dark cloud over the land. So many. Innocent babes. Hopeful young children with bright eyes. Grandpas. Mothers. New brides. Their entire wedding parties. Young boys and young men, rebellious, they hardly know why, barely out of puberty, recruited. And hundreds of thousands of complete innocents. They are crying out to us, "Stop! Stop! Love life! Do not embrace death! Do not inflict death! It's awful! Do not do it! Be love! Do love! Give love!" and we do not want to hear them, because, if we do, their pathetic, disembodied pleas would compel us to radically alter our "business as usual" lives--and even our activist lives--to find the EFFECTIVE way to stop it.

A dark cloud over the world, broiling with the spirits of these truncated lives--killed and tortured in our name--forming its biggest thunderhead over America, and besieging the live human beings of the only population in the world that can do anything about it, with cries, moans, pleas, warnings, and prayers for us. We all hear it in a distant way, even if we deny it. And we see the impacts of denial in peoples' behavior--such as a feeling that the heat is punishment (inability to relax with it and tolerate it--combined with deep fear that the planet is dying and we are doing nothing, and our government is doing nothing, to stop it).

I try to think strategically. What are the means of power by which the perpetrators of war and death have overwhelmed us, and thwarted our will as a people? The most obvious one is our right to vote. Clearly, they have taken this away--with their new electronic election theft machinery. And they have done so for a reason. An American vote is a very powerful thing. Combined with others, it can entirely change the direction of our country, toward peace and justice. So, thinking strategically, that is my first priority: transparent, verifiable elections. We have no power to change anything without honest elections.

Further, I even have a strategy for getting it done: There is a lot of amazing new activity in the election reform movement, and much hope in this movement. But there is nothing on the horizon that will yield transparent elections this November. We are looking at another Bushite-stolen election. What can we do?

My proposal: A massive citizen protest against the rigged machines by Absentee Ballot voting. If enough people do it (and many are already), these shiny new election theft machines will be made obsolete, and the system will cracked open for reform. What good are their election theft machines if nobody will vote on them?

AB voting is not safe, but it IS a PROTEST that could throw a great big monkey wrench into the rigged election system. Also, it's easy. Everybody can do it. And to those who don't vote because "it's all rigged," we can say, "But this is a PROTEST aimed at UN-rigging the system." It will give them a good reason to participate. It will help increase voter turnout (needed to overcome the "thumb on the scales" that is being given to Bushites in the electronic voting systems). But this protest is not especially aimed at getting an accurate vote count in November. That is not possible. The rigging and corruption are too entrenched. It is a protest aimed, necessarily, just beyond that election, to the FUTURE. I compare it to the Montgomery bus boycott which did not, in and of itself, end segregation, but created a paradigm of the bad system that had to come down. A snowball effect. A massive citizen rebellion against the rigged voting machines. A show of power. Send the election thieves into a panic. Make them scurry. There is our opportunity for significant reform.

I love this protest idea particularly as it has come from ordinary, individual citizens, who have tried to think of a way to get their vote COUNTED. They basically wanted a paper ballot, hand-counted. That's what they're saying by requesting an Absentee Ballot. But even though AB votes are also scanned into the rigged electronic systems, it's still a brilliant idea that could leave ALL of the new, rigged electronic voting machines gathering dust. No one will vote on them! No one will touch them! No on will cooperate with this rigged system! We'll vote, yes. We have to. But they've going to have to deal with a MOUNTAIN of paper, and they're going to look like fools for buying all this riggable machinery that nobody trusts.

And after we get rid of the voting machines, we will have momentum to get rid of the central electronic tabulators (also run on private, corporate TRADE SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code, controlled by Bushite corporations)--and other vitally needed reforms.

We want a big rebellion in the U.S. We know it's needed. How do we get it? And how do we focus rebellious energies on the chief MECHANISM OF POWER that we, as citizens--and as the theoretical sovereign people of this land--are supposed to possess, in order to control our government's policies and actions?

I think this is it. Massive AB voting.

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That's me. That's my answer to the spirits of the dead. That's my vision for dispelling the Dark Cloud. The heat will become bearable then, when we know we have done our duty, and have insured that honest people are representing us, who will not only stop the madness of Mideast war, but will also gather the wonderful energies and creativity of the American people, and cooperate with the rest of humanity, to stop global warming.

What's your idea? Do you hear these sad, pleading spirits? Do you feel the Dark Cloud? Do you have an idea for how to respond and what to do?

[DemonFighterLives]

41. Great post

The unresting spirits makes sense. All they need is some good lightning for a few evildoers in our country.
The vote protest may work, but dubbby and the gang will probably just run roughshod over anything that is tried. Probably need to hire Halliburton to hand count.
In Spirit-- :argh:

[AnnieBW]

21. Mercury Is Retrograde

Until the 29th. When that happens, it affects all communications. (Look at the G8 summit, lack of communication between Israel/Hizbollah/Lebanon, etc.) Add to that the heat waves here and in Europe, and you've got a lot of cranky, hot people that can't communicate.

[zippy890]

22. absolutley - more road rage type stuff

and irritability in general

[lonestarnot]

25. I was going to say.

I'm always irritable and have been that way since the theft of the first election in 2000, but I was too harsh on myself. I haven't noticed it in others any more than usual.

[cynatnite]

23. I go batshit crazy everytime someone suggests DU is worse than usual...

makes me wanna crash my head into something.

I've had a lot of headaches for the last two years.

[WillyT]

26. I Agree... DU Is Its Usual Horrible Self, LOL !!!

I was talking about our reality-based neighborhoods\communities\cities, etc.

:hi::evilgrin::hi:

[cynatnite]

28. I did notice I'm getting the finger more when I'm driving...

could it be my bumper sticker?



:hi: :evilgrin: :hi:

sorry for the misunderstanding.

[EFerrari]

38. I'm going to alert on you for driving under the influence of heat

on DU.

:evilgrin:

[wtmusic]

32. The Heat + Presidential Incompetence Leading to Extreme Suffering =

unhappy DU campers.

[Spazito]

27. That is a friggin insult, take it back!!!!!

I am NOT cranky and it is insults like this that make me want to @##$$%^^^!


:rofl:

(Sorry, just had to do that, lol)

[im10ashus]

29. I live in NYC.

Crankiness is a way of life. :evilgrin:

[EFerrari]

36. Then, please give us newbies some tips -- errrr,

at least those of us who are so self unaware we think we're newbies.

When your f8cking @sshole neighbor from Hell has a party in the middle of the block at 3 a.m., and you want to commit mayhem because you were almost asleep, how to do it with panache?

lol

I don't know how you all manage, really.

Only how I do.

[TomClash]

39. I have found that Verdi, Puccini, Delibes, Wagner or others

played fortissimo at 6 a.m. within earshot of the offender's bedroom does quite nicely.

[EFerrari]

42. Now, there's a good idea!

:)

[B Calm]

40. What are you looking at? You want a piece of me?

[DelawareValleyDem]

44. Yep. And gas prices aren't helping either nt.